Lessons in Leadership

If you're someone like me who exercises, you probably become annoyed during the month of January as the gym fills up with the multitudes of people who have made a resolution to lose weight and/or get fit in the new year. My annoyance is always short lived as the...

It is that time of the year once again, the clocks fall back as trees shed their leaves. I have always marveled at a deciduous plant’s ability to shed itself in the fall and then reemerge in the spring with new energy. The process allows plants to conserve water...

As an executive coach, much of the work I do is helping executives and business owners bring clarity about the possibilities for their organization and themselves. So often when we start working together executives’ goals are vague and ambiguous. Without clear goals,...

As we prepare for children to show up at our front doors yelling “trick or treat”, I can’t help but think how this tradition has permeated our society. As a child, I don’t remember my parents going to Halloween parties, it was a child’s only holiday. No longer is...

I don’t know about you but I am so weary of the acrimony in congress about the healthcare bill. Up until recently I felt like both sides were acting like children, neither party wanted to “play nice”. Then I started to think more about how our government is organized...